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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info  —  U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models  —  Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter.  The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate  —  A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate …
Danny Park / The Block:
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU  —  - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse  —  A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure over US privacy fears under Trump; two European cloud providers say it is driving interest  —  Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US.
Bloomberg:
A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major changes, like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT  —  Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
Bloomberg:
Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA  —  President Donald Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial said it plans to launch a stablecoin redeemable one-for-one with the dollar …
Reuters:
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO  —  South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers  —  But it will need to change the law prohibiting fully driverless vehicles first. … Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city.
Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac:
Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta  —  In a statement today, Apple announced that it would be integrating the Apple Music catalog with a number of popular tools …

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives

Paul Glynn / BBC:
HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women

Ken Vogel / @kenvogel:
Politico ends its print edition after 19 years, as its early reliance on print ad revenue fades and its audience relies more on digital platforms

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Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
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Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Media signs a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to launch ETFs under its Truth.Fi brand later this year, comprising digital assets and securities
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:
eToro files for an IPO, seeking to list as ETOR on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, ~96% of which was from cryptoassets, and a $192M net income
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Massachusetts' top securities regulator probes Robinhood's decision to launch a prediction markets hub, after sending the company a subpoena last week
Bloomberg:
23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021
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